WordPress Core AI leadership changes on the road to 7.0
Felix Arntz and James are stepping back as Core AI Team Reps, and Jason Adams takes over. The handover lands as the Abilities API matures and the WP AI Client heads into core for WordPress 7.0.
Tag: APIs
WordPress AI plugin 1.0.0 is really about governance
The WordPress AI plugin 1.0.0 adds Request Logging and Connector Approvals, which give site owners real control over which plugins use AI and what they spend. Here is what changed and what developers should do about it.
WordPress.com adds a Mac AI workspace and Studio Blueprints
The latest WordPress.com sprint brought Jetpack Podcast, the WordPress Workspace Mac app with an AI agent, and a Blueprints Gallery in Studio. The common thread is local-first development and less repeated setup work.
Building a multimodal recommender system on Amazon EKS
A production recommender on Amazon EKS lives or dies on infrastructure, not the model. Here’s how I set up a multistage system with NVIDIA Triton, cut feature lookup latency with an in-memory cache, and scale GPU nodes with HPA and Karpenter.
Lately, the WordPress.com beta that turns Telegram into a blog
WordPress.com’s Lately beta lets you blog through Telegram. You message the WordPress Agent during the week, then edit and send a private letter to approved friends every Friday.
WordPress AI development after 7.0: Abilities, secrets and C2PA
WordPress 7.0 is out, and the AI work behind it keeps moving. Here is what the AI contributors are working on: scaling the Abilities API, a Secrets Management API, hook-based init, and keeping C2PA metadata in the media library.
Why LLM themes are not valid database observations
LLM-extracted themes are model outputs that only exist when a customer left text behind. Treat them as plain database columns and selection, timing and measurement error can flip the sign of your regression.
The Blueprints Gallery lands in WordPress Studio 1.9.0
WordPress Studio 1.9.0 ships a Blueprints Gallery, so you can browse, preview and launch pre-configured local sites without hunting for JSON files. It works from the Studio CLI too.
PySpark for beginners: scaling past what Pandas can hold
When your data outgrows your laptop’s RAM, Pandas stops being enough. Here’s how PySpark spreads the work across a cluster, why lazy evaluation matters, and a first DataFrame to get you started.
WooCommerce catalog management is getting a native rebuild
WooCommerce is rebuilding the All Products screen on top of WordPress DataViews and DataForms. Here is what the proof of concept changes, where it still falls short on performance, and why extension authors should test it now.